Shatner’s Bassoon – Aquatic Ape Privilege(Wasp Millionaire Records. WM001. CD Review by Chris Parker)Admirers of one of TV’s most intelligent and wittily subversive programme makers, Chris Morris (it’s the Jesuit education), will […]
Alice Zawadzki and Moss FreedLondon Jazz Festival Review: Alice Zawadzki Band/Let Spin (Green Note, Thursday 16th November. Review by Rob Edgar)Last night, the cosy Green Note Café in Camden featured singer/violinist Alice […]
Mycale at Pizza Express Dean St. 18th October (Georgia Mancio’s ReVoice! Festival. Preview By Rob Edgar.)Mycale are a New York based a-cappella vocal group who have been working closely with composer/saxophonist Jonh […]
Wadada Leo Smith’s Mbira – Dark Lady of the Sonnets(Tum Records TUM CD023. CD review by Chris Parker)The defining musical relationship in the trio Mbira might be assumed to be – given […]
Tim BernePhoto credit: Matt Brown/ Creative Commons“I love London”, says Tim Berne, profiled and interviewed for LondonJazz by ALEX ROTH prior to Berne’s two nights at the Vortex: Wednesday March 14th and Thursday 15th. […]
Peter Evans, Vortex, November 2011Drawing by Geoff Winston. All Rights Reserved.Peter Evans, Okkyung Lee, Evan Parker (Vortex, Monday 21 November 201. Review and drawing by Geoff Winston)Evan Parker‘s opening remark that “the […]
Eugene ChadbourneDrawing by Geoffrey Winston. All Rights ReservedEugene Chadbourne (Café Oto, 3 November, 2011. review and drawing by Geoff Winston)Eugene Chadbourne has played and recorded with many significant out-there jazz luminaries – […]
Peter Slavid reports from last weekend’s Jazz Middelheim festival in Antwerp Jazz Middelheim is now in its 30th year and getting record attendances – 19,000 people over four days this year. It’s […]
Richard Thompson(Royal Festival Hall, January 18th 2011, Review by Rod Fogg, photo richardthompson-music.com )This was the first of a two-nighter at London’s Royal Festival Hall, part of a UK tour extending on […]
Guest critic Phil Woods reviews the North Sea Jazz Festival: The North Sea Jazz Festival takes place in fifteen concurrently competing venues at Rotterdam’s Ahoy, which reminded me of Birmingham’s NEC, perhaps on […]
The South Bank have announced a virtually complete programme for Meltdown, including most of the support acts, the free events, and a tuitionweek of Harmolodics, in partnership with Trinity Laban.Interesting new names […]
Wynton This morning’s piece in the Guardian about Sir Nicholas Kenyon’s plans for Barbican makes it 100% official. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra is to have a residency at the Barbican. I […]
The buzz about Nottingham-born Julian Siegel has finally got going in the past year. And about time too. Julian WORKS. Hard. Woodsheds. Hard. Drives himself. Hard. And the results in his playing […]
